The sun and temptations heat Crave

In Memory, Bellefleur, Inhale exhale or the miniseries on Chantale Daigle: one could have assumed that one of these prestigious productions would have inherited the title of show having had the best start on the Crave platform since its creation five years ago.

But no. This supreme honor goes to a sultry reality show which was filmed last fall in less than a week, i.e. OD: Temptations in the sundriven by Maripier Morin in Playa del Carmen.

In fact, OD: Temptations in the sunonline since December 2, has set the ultimate popularity record on Crave, coast to coast, even beating blockbusters from HBO’s catalog. Gender : The Last of Us or House of the Dragon.

Unsurprisingly, the bosses of Bell Media, who celebrated the five years of their digital platform on Tuesday, announced the return ofOD: Temptations in the sun for a second season, scheduled for Crave next fall. Yes, Maripier Morin will take over the helm of this naughty game of seduction between consenting singles, which brings back competitors from previous editions ofOccupation double. So, seasoned players ready to loosen their tongues.

Between the lines, we guess that the confirmation ofOD: Temptations in the Sun 2 implies the renewal of the regular version of OD, since these two reality shows produced by Julie Snyder share their love villas and their production teams. However, this information has not been officially validated.

According to the Media Technologies Observer (OTM), an organization that specializes in research on television, the web and radio, approximately 15% of French-speaking viewers in Canada subscribe to Crave, a subscription rate higher than that of ‘Extra from ICI Tou.TV (13%) and Club illico (13%), now illico+.

On the other hand, Crave lags behind Netflix (52%), Amazon Prime Video (37%) and Disney+ (23%). That said, apart from Netflix, which lost consumers in the last year, all other digital services saw their customer base jump in the country.

Crave will continue to offer television premieres in the coming months, including the intriguing series Empathy (April 10) written by Florence Longpré (Raspberry time, Do you hear me?). The screenwriter and actress will portray the head psychiatrist of a Philippe-Pinel institute where patients who are dangerous to others and to themselves stay. The distribution ofEmpathy also brings together Josée Deschênes, Brigitte Lafleur, Pascale Montpetit and Benoit Brière.

Another titillating Crave project: comedy Spoiled Rotten (March 5), written and performed by the talented Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Pascale Renaud-Hébert and Suzie Bouchard. It follows three friends in their late thirties who have everything to be happy, but who complain all the time.

Crave will host the third and final season of the sitcom Completely high schoolonline May 16. Teenage mother Allie Thompson (Rosalie Vaillancourt) will join the New Garden Hills Valley High School newspaper, while Keith (Patrick Emmanuel Abellard) will argue with members of the Bi club.

We are promised references to The Social Network, Fight Club, A Princess’s Diary et Yellowjackets. Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Gosselin are added to the credits of Completely high schoola delicious parody of American productions from the 1990s and 2000s.

The continuation ofAfter the flood (February 5) will begin 24 hours after the end of the first season, while the career of policewoman Maxime Salomon (Penande Estime) was faltering.

After the sparkling success of Dream LifeCrave turns its cameras on the rich businessman Luc Poirier, the spouse of Isabelle Gauvin, in the docuseries Luke the Billionaire. Columnist Pierre-Yves McSween will try, in three episodes offered next summer, to popularize the ultimate quest of this Ferrari collector: to exceed a billion in personal fortune.

To return to Dream Lifewith whom I have a love-hate relationship, this docu-reality hasn’t (yet) gotten a green light for a luxurious second chapter. I spent all 10 episodes saying I hated it. But I watched them all. I didn’t enjoy my life with Sonia Zarbatany that much. But I didn’t miss anything of the $150,000 Parisian adventures of Isabelle Gauvin and Luc Poirier.

Still in reality TV, Crave will launch (May 7) a game similar to Traitorsbut based on the TV series One waywhere 10 competitors will hide their secrets to win the $50,000 jackpot.

In the fall, make way for Cursedthe TV adaptation of author Édith Kabuya’s young adult books, which mix horror, supernatural and science fiction. Also next fall, Lévi Doré will be starring in the television series They lived happilywhere two 25-year-old young adults will redefine the boundaries of traditional marriage.

The expected sequel to Bellefleur will deploy on Crave in the spring and we will have to wait until the summer to delve into the second investigation of the heroines (Virginie Fortin and Sonia Cordeau) ofInhale exhale.

At the start of the school year, author Julie Hivon (sleepless night) will reveal Night terrorsa psychological thriller where a pianist is stunned in the middle of a concert.

And it is in 2026 that the famous tandem formed by Patrick Huard and Colm Feore will appear in Good cop, bad copthe television series.

It is also next year that we will see a) the rest of the Return of Anna Brodeur and b) comedy The floodsinspired by the touring life of comedians Marie-Lyne Joncas and Ève Côté.

Simon Boulerice, even if he is currently involved in the alliances of Big Brother Celebritiescontinues to work and will offer the thriller in 2026 I hold youwhich he describes as a cross between Young woman looking for roommate et Misery. The plot? A beneficiary attendant interferes with a couple of sex workers and everything goes wrong.

Who will become completely obsessed with another person, to the point of copying their look, their hairstyle and their entire life? And who will type on the typewriter under the manic gaze of a complete madwoman?